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Sustainability, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2017 - 165 articles

Cover Story: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 1. No Poverty. The photo is adapted from http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
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Articles (165)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,909 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2017

We analyze the economic effects of greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction measures of the generation sector of South Korea to accomplish the 2030 GHG reduction target using a scenario-based approach. We estimate the GHG emission of the South Korean power i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
11,187 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2017

Nighttime light data offer a unique view of the Earth’s surface and can be used to estimate the spatial distribution of gross domestic product (GDP). Historically, using a simple regression function, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
13,313 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2017

Concerns about climate change and increasing emission costs are drivers for new sources of fuels for Europe. Sustainable hydrocarbons can be produced synthetically by power-to-gas (PtG) and power-to-liquids (PtL) facilities, for sectors with low dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,959 Views
17 Pages

Addressing Wildfire Risk in Forest Management Planning with Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods

  • Susete Marques,
  • Marco Marto,
  • Vladimir Bushenkov,
  • Marc McDill and
  • JoséG. Borges

18 February 2017

Wildfires impact the outcomes of forest management plans. Addressing that impact is thus critical for effective forest ecosystem management planning. This paper presents research on the use of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods that int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,864 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2017

This paper aims to explore the change of CO2 intensity in China at both national and provincial levels. To serve this purpose, we introduce a decomposition model which integrates the merits of index decomposition analysis and production-theoretical d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,758 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2017

Photovoltaic (PV) power generation is one of the cleanest sources for producing renewable energy; however uptake on the Irish renewable energy market to date has been low. There is a lack of support for solar PV systems in Ireland; there is currently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,475 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2017

The aim of this paper is to optimize the building shape parameters and envelope parameters influencing the rural building energy consumption in cold winter and hot summer climate. Several typical models are established and optimized by integrated TRN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,420 Views
14 Pages

17 February 2017

As pollution incidents frequently occurred in the functional water areas of the Taihu Basin, Yangtze Delta, effective emission control to guarantee water quality in the Taihu Basin became the priority for environmental management. In this study, a ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,334 Views
17 Pages

17 February 2017

This paper focused on energy consumption and carbon emission for heating and cooling during a building’s operation stage, and examined the energy effects of using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) as an alternative building material to reinforced concrete...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
14,117 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2017

Neglected and underutilized food crops (NUFCs) have high nutritional value, but their role in achieving nutrition security is not adequately understood, and they do not feature in food and nutrition policies and programs of the countries of the Hindu...

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